“They needed some money, but most of all they needed a government official to sign on and say that this is okay,” Røys told DCD. When in Måløy, she met LocalHost CEO Sindre Kvalheim and investors Gunnar Carlson and Egil Skibenes, who told her about their fledgling plan for Lefdal. Heidi Grande Røys was Minister of Government Administration and Reform at the time, campaigning in the final months of her term. Nine years ago, after the mine was abandoned when surface-level olivine was discovered just 10km away, regional hosting company LocalHost realized there could be another use for the empty mountain. With Lefdal Mine Datacenter now open, the difficult, perhaps impossible, journey to full utilization of some 120,000 square meters (1,291,669 sq ft) of white space has begun.īut the desire to transform the mountain into a data center predates Köhler, whose company is the largest single shareholder in the project. Now CEO of German IT manufacturing giant Rittal, Köhler has big hopes for Lefdal, telling an assembled crowd at the facility’s launch: “We will be by far the largest data center in Europe once fully utilized.” Little did he know that twenty nine years later he would once again stand in that mine, this time with Kvalheim’s son, Sindre, and announce that Lefdal has a new use - as a data center. There he met works director Steinar Kvalheim and watched as hundreds of thousands of tons of the green mineral, used to tap blast furnaces in the steel industry, was excavated from the inside of a mountain. In 1988, while working for the steel and mining company Hoesch, Dr Karl-Ulrich Köhler visited a mine in Norway to discuss olivine, also known as the gemstone peridot.
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